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Take the scenario, you capture unstructured notes in OneNote for your meetings and would like to link those unstructured notes to your CRM record.

Through using CRM for Outlook you can create OneNote pages straight from CRM records, that automatically link to the CRM record.

So how do I do this? Follow these simple steps:

Open up Outlook and navigate to a CRM record, in my example Accounts

Right click on the record that you want to create a OneNote for and select OneNote

Pick the location of the note and click OK

A new OneNote page will be created with some base CRM record details and a link to the CRM record that you selected.

If you click the link the CRM record will open

If you now go back to CRM for Outlook and right click on the same record again and select OneNote, the OneNote page will automatically open allowing you to take further notes.

I think this is a great feature for linking CRM with OneNote. Note this approach does not create any link in CRM back to OneNote from the Form, but from a view in Outlook you can quickly get to the notes.